Head to head
Mekanism vs Rust
Mekanism
~360 daily · 83 – 1.1k
Last measured Nov 10, 2026
Rust
~590k daily · 420k – 820k
Last measured Nov 10, 2026
VerdictRust has ~1639× Mekanism's daily players (~590k vs ~360, as of Nov 10, 2026). Mekanism's estimate is low confidence: read the gap as an order of magnitude.
Side by side
Values shared by both games are highlighted.
Status
Released
Est. daily players
Available on
- Linux
- macOS
- Windows
- Linux
- macOS
- PlayStation
- Windows
- Xbox
Categories
Player activity
Estimated daily players (central estimate) for both games.
Monthly history: Collecting data since Nov 5, 2026. The table appears once there are two calendar months to compare.
Community breakdown
Steam, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and YouTube activity for both games, side by side. Collected since Nov 5, 2026.
Discord members
- Mekanism
- 9.6k
- Rust
- 814k
Rust currently has about 85× as many Discord members as Mekanism — 813,951 vs 9,620.
Steam concurrent players
- Mekanism
- —
- Rust
- 109.7kDown 22% past week
Rust currently has 109,689 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Mekanism.
Reddit members
- Mekanism
- —
- Rust
- 713k
Rust currently has 713,015 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Mekanism.
Twitch viewers
- Mekanism
- —
- Rust
- 7.2kDown 69% past week
Rust currently has 7,208 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Mekanism.
YouTube subscribers
- Mekanism
- —
- Rust
- 207k
Rust currently has 207,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Mekanism.
How these estimates are made
Mekanism
We estimate that about 360 people play Mekanism on a typical day (most likely between 83 and 1,100), based on data from Nov 10, 2026. Around 77,000 accounts (between 26,000 and 180,000) have played it at some point. Mekanism publishes no Steam player data, so the estimate is modelled from the size of its Discord, Reddit, Twitch, YouTube and app-store communities. Confidence: low — a community-size model, not a measurement.
Rust
We estimate that about 590,000 people play Rust on a typical day (most likely between 420,000 and 820,000), based on data from Nov 10, 2026. Around 20,000,000 accounts (between 16,000,000 and 26,000,000) have played it at some point. It is anchored on Steam’s official concurrent-player count, converted to daily players, so players on other launchers or consoles may not be fully counted. Confidence: high — measured from a full day of Steam data, for a game played mainly on Steam.